Quick Definition
ἀπαιτέω v. I ask back, ask what is my due
Strong's Definition
from 575 and 154; to demand back
KJV Usage: ask again, require
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | αἰτέω
33.165 · Communication · Ask For, Request
to ask back to ask for something to be returned In some languages it may be necessary to be quite specific and detailed in rendering ἀπαιτέω in LUK 6:30, for example, ‘when someone takes from you what is yours, do not ask that he give it back to you.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπ-αιτέω, -; to ask*back, demand back, exact something due (Sir. xx. 15 (14) σήμερον δανειεῖ καὶ αὔριον ἀπαιτήσει): Lk. vi. 30; τὴν ψυχήν cov ἀπαιτοῦσιν [Tr WH αἰτοῦσιν] thy soul, intrusted to thee by God for a time, is demanded back, Lk. xii. 20, (Sap. xv. 8 τὸ τῆς Ψυχῆς ἀπαιτηθεὶς χρέος). (In Grk. writ. fr. Hdt. down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπαιτέω apaiteō 2x
to demand, require, Lk. 12:20; to demand back, Lk. 6:30*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀπ-αιτέω, -ῶ,
[in LXX: De 15:2, 3, al. (נגשׂ), Si 20:15, Wi 15:8, al.;]
to ask back, demand back: Lk 6:30 12:20 (MM, VGT, s.v.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπαιτέω. BGU II. 530% (i/A.p.) (= Selectzons, p. 62) ἄλλως τε καὶ ἀπαιτῖται ὑπὸ τῶν πρακτόρων ἱκανόν, ‘especially security is demanded by the taxgatherers” : cf. P Fay 3915: (a.p. 183) ἐκ τίνος ἀπαιτεῖται τὸ προκείμενον ἀπότακτον, where the editors state that ἀ. ‘‘may imply that the payment was in arrear or have a quite general meaning.” The former alternative is clearly implied in P Fay 112° (¢. B.c. 115) ὃ ἐνκαλούμενος πλεονάκις ἀπῃτημένος [ο]ὐχ ὑπομένει ἑκουσίως ἀποδιδόναι, “the accused, though frequent demands have been made, p-rsistently refuses to pay voluntarily” (Edd.). Other examples of the verb, which is common, are P Flor 1. 61% (A.D. 86-8) διὰ τί ἕως σήμερον οὐκ ἀπήτησας, and again δ᾽ ἐπεὶ σιτόλογοι ἦσαν Kal ἀπῃτ[οῦ]ντο εἰς τὸν Κ'ὶ [αἸίσαρος λόγον, P Lond 85619 (late i/A.D.) (ΞΞ ΠΙ. p. 92) ὃ δὲ λήμπτωρ ἀπαιτεῖ certain taxes, P Tebt Il. 32.719 1: (late ii/A.D.) οὐ δέοντως ἀπαιτοῦμα[ι] τὰ ὑπὲρ τῶν ὑπαρχόν[τω]ν τελούμενα δημόσια, ‘demands have wrongfully been made upon me for the government dues payable on behalf of the property” (Edd.): a very similar phrase occurs in CPHerm 52'36. In P Oxy VIII. 115725 (late iii/A.D.) καὶ μάθε ὅτι τὸ ἐπεικεφάλαιον ἀπαιτοῦσιν “*find out also about the collection of the poll-tax” (Ed.) : the idiomatic impersonal plural curiously contrasts with the translation Greek, showing the same word, in Lk 122°. In the Christian letter P Oxy VI. 93918 (iv/a.D.) (= Selections, p- 129) we have the phrase τοῦτο τοῦ καθήκοντος ἀπία]ι[τοῦντ]ος, ‘this being what duty demanded.” For the subst. see BGU IV. 110318 (B.c. 14) περὶ ἀπαιτήσεως τοῦ φερναρίου, P Oxy I. 1048 (a will, a.p. 96) ἀπαίτη[σι]ν ποιήσεσθαι, ete, and for the adj. ἀπαιτήσιμος various land-surveys of ii/B.c.—P Tebt I. 61, 64, 72. ‘Vhe noun ἀπαιτητής occurs in Wilcken Ost 1460 (A.D. 185-6) δὲ ἐμοῦ Μάρκου. . . ἀπαιτ(ητοῦ".
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀπαιτέω (apaiteō) — to demand. ἀπαιτ-έω, demand back, demand to have returned, especially of things forcibly taken or rightfully belonging to one, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μισθάριον γὰρ ἂν ἀπαιτῇς [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὴν ψυχήν[NT]; ἀ. τινά τι demand something of one, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ὑπέρ τινος[Refs 4th c.BC+]: with infinitive, ἀ. τινὰ ποιεῖν τι[Refs 5th c.BC+] __b call down on oneself, ποινάς[Refs 4th c.AD+] __c of things, require, νοῦσοι -έουσι σικύην[Refs 1st c.AD+]
2. inquire, ἀπαιτήσομεν αὐτὸν τίνες εἰσίν[Refs 1st c.BC+]
II. passive, of things, to be demanded in payment, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. of persons, have demanded of one, ἀπαιτεῖσθαι εὐεργεσίαν[LXX+5th c.BC+]; yield to a request, οὐκ ἀπαιτούμεσθα, answering to ἀπαιτῶ σκῆπτρα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]